This evening as usual we went walkies on the fields where the pheasants play.
Not usual was the fact that I was alone with the memsahib laid low with sore throaty things.
Off and away they went in the glooming light but they all come back after a quick jogg. Well in fact it is a manic munster charge all over the field for about 20 minutes.
Tonight it is different as dark falls very quickly and I see them pogo dancing about 200 yards away. 3 blasts on the whistle and a this way and they begin to work back to me. It is getting really gloomy now and hard to see. Zelda comes to within about 5 yards of me and then all hell breaks loose as Zeb hits into a mob of pheasants about 100 yards distance. She takes off like the wind in their general direction and disappears. 20 minutes later she has not reappeared and Zeb has been back for 15 Whistling and calling does no good so I ring home to see if she has gone there. No says the sickly one. So I carry on calling and cannot see much at all now. Suddenly Zeb sits up and yips and she is there. One very relieved person praises her for the return and slips her lead on. We call home again to let memsahib know all is in order but no answer. Setting off back we meet a coughing figure in the gloom. She has come through the pitch black woods to find Zelda. In spite of her worry about the dark.
Can you get some form of collar light so I can see the beasts in the darkness. Not a tiny dangly thing but something like an angler's headlamp. Has to be waterproof and shockproof though. Anyone know where?
